Cardiac expression of 52β, an alternative transcript of the congenital heart block-associated 52-kd SS-A/Ro autoantigen, is maximal during fetal development

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 655-660

  Buyon, Jill P ^a,d   Tseng, Chung E ^a   Donato, Francis D I ^a   Rashbaum, William ^b   Morris, Allan ^b   Chan, Edward K L ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; SS A ANTIGEN; SS-A ANTIGEN; SSA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONGENITAL HEART BLOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS HEART; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEART BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AUTOANTIGENS; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 0030610828     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780400410     Document Type: Article

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